Video highlights:

01:26 - When a group comes together

02:46 - A hyper brainstorm

03:46 - What’s working best for you?

04:17 - Where the money is in the business

06:08 - Delivering sustained value

07:52 - What’s on your action list?

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Transcription:

It's James here. I want to share with you today some highlights that I got from my Maldives mastermind trip in September 2016 because as I'm preparing for the Maldives Mastermind coming up in 2017, which is in September, I'm just going through and reliving some of the experience.

It's really quite phenomenal. You get off the airplane at the airport in Mali, and you step onto the tender that takes you out to the big boat. And that first night, they have a welcome drink, the air is warm, you find your cabin, you sleep, you wake up the next morning in paradise, like aqua-colored water. There's this shift that goes over you.

Then what I did is I took guests through some facilitated business mastermind exercises. In addition to sitting down with each one of them individually over that week. So I just want to share some of the things we talked about. Maybe it's time for you to do a reset on your business. So you can do this by yourself at home. You could do it next time you're away. I really recommend you do these things when you're away from your business because it gives you more perspective. Of course, you could do it with me in the Maldives in September as well if you'd like to do that.

Group dynamics

So, when we got together, of course there's this group dynamics. It's people coming together. It's a new group. You've got to find out who does what and where they're at and learn more about them. So I do an introduction exercise where I take people through a mindset exercise, opening them up for the experience and helping them be ready to make change, because that's what I would like to have happen over that week. I want them to come out of the end. So when you're sitting down doing your planning, think about what result do you want, what does success look like, and where do you want to move to. So that's what we do there. We share something each so that we can start to feel for who's there.

 

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The next thing that we do is we go deeper into people's specialties, not only what they're really good at but what they really want help with. So I start joining people up naturally. And you'll find that over the breaks, over the snorkelling sessions or the breathing exercises or the lunch on the deck, or the dinner or the breakfast and the casual couch conversations that happen, people gravitate towards the people who are like them, people who have a strength they're interested in, but also if people can solve someone else's challenge, they're going to gravitate there and help them out, which is just wonderful to see.

The PEQ technique

Then the next exercise we do is called a PEQ, and I learned this technique from Ed Dale, but it's like a hyper brainstorm. It's not just a blind one where the strongest people in the room get the m...